In the first major English biography of Honore de Balzac in over 50 years, Graham Robb has produced a compelling portrait of the great French novelist whose powers of creation were matched only by his self-destructive tendencies. Robb presents Balzac as a man whose influence both in and outside his native France has been, and is still, immense.
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In the first major English biography of Honore de Balzac in over 50 years, Graham Robb has produced a compelling portrait of the great French novelist whose powers of creation were matched only by his self-destructive tendencies. Robb presents Balzac as a man whose influence both in and outside his native France has been, and is still, immense.
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This is an authoratitive study of one of France's greatest prose authors. Robb (who wrote a very good book on Victor Hugo) is not at his best here, overcomplicating the life story with amateur psychology and leaving us with a weak impression of the hero. Yet if you are interested in Balzac (and you should be) and do not read French sufficiently well to tackle a biography in that language, this is perfectly adequate.
